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I. B. KENDALL. ODORLESS 'PRIVY SEAT 0E 0mm. 296580 Patented Apr. 8, 188-4.

' WITNESSES:

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRALKLIN B. KENDALL, OFTUMWATER, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

ODORLESS PRIVY SEAT OR CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,580, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed May 25,1883. (No model.)

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN B. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tumwater,.in the county of Thurston, Washington Territory, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Odorless Privy Seats or Chairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference mark ed thereon, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved odorless privy seat or chair, and Fig. 2 is a central vcrti cal section.

My invention relates to improvements in privies for which Letters-Patent were granted to me December 25, 1883, and numbered 290,776; and it consists in the peculiarconstruction and arrangement of the parts to raise and lower the excrement-vessel by means of a step, which serves the double function of a foot-rest and a means for raising and lowering the excrementvessel.

In the drawings, A represents a chair, provided with legs b b and seat a, provided with a central hole.

c 0 represent two boards secured to the lower ends of the front and rear legs 12 b, leaving a slot or space, 6, between the bottom boards, 0.

0 G represent two boards, each secured to the inner faces of the legs b, and extending from the bottom boards, 0 c, to the seat a, and

' each board 0 is provided with an angular recess, m, lying over the space 6 between the bottom boards, 0 r. V

L L represent two levers pivotally secured at a to the hind legs of the chair, and S represents a step or foot-rest pivoted by the pintles Z Z near the forward ends of the levers L L. The pintles Z Z on the ends of the step S are arranged a short distance from the inner ends of the step S, so that when the step S is raise the rods B secured thereto,and carrying the platform P, and with it the sliding board P and excrement-vesseh Q, up against the sliding packing R, held by cleats 10, secured to the sides 0 C.

D represents the front board, secured to the front faces of the front legs below the seat a, and extending down to the step S, and provided with recesses at its lower corners, to permit of thennovements of the levers L.

By this construction a box, 0, open at its rear end and provided with a seat-hole, is formed under the seat of the chair, and the platform carrying the GXGIBDlBl'lli-ChZLIHDBI can be slid back and forth, when desired, in the box 0.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an odorless privy sezt or chair, the combination, with a vertically-reciprocating platform supporting an excrement-vessel, of levers pivoted to the supporting-frame and connected to the platform, and a step pivoted to and between the forward ends of the levers and adapted to engage with shoulders on the chair, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the eXcrement-vessel is raised and lowered, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a box, 0, provided with shoulders 1), slots 6, and recesses m, of the pivoted levers L, rods B, carrying the platform P, and pivoted step S, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

FRANKLIN B. KENDALL. Vitnesses:

Gno. H. BURNTRAGER, S. O. Linn, 

